"Scarlet Pansy" and William Faro (publisher); Clement Wood & Samuel Roth

Mon Jan 10 05:06:41 UTC 2005

The NYPL was open again Sunday (1-5:45 p.m.), but I didn't get there early  
enough to do much. I have SCARLET PANSY on reserve.
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The book mentioned here is A SCARLET PANSY (New York: W. Faro 1933) by  
Robert Scully. The publisher is interesting. Another 1933 "W. Faro" book is the  
famous ANECDOTA AMERICANA: FIVE HUNDRED STORIES FOR THE AMUSEMENT OF THE FIVE  
HUNDRED NATIONS THAT COMPRISE AMERICA.
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Other titles:
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STONE WALLS DO NOT: THE CHRONICLE OF A CAPTIVITY (1930) by Samuel  Roth
LADY CHATTERLY'S LOVER: A DRAMATIZATION OF HIS VERSION OF D. H.  LAWRENCE'S 
NOVEL (1931) by Samuel Roth    
THE INTIMATE JOURNAL OF RUDOLPH VALENTINO (1931)
BODY: A NEW STUDY, IN NARRATIVE, OF THE ANATOMY OF SOCIETY (1931) by Daniel  
Quilter
A GENTLEMAN IN A BLACK SKIN (1932) by Donna McKay
WOMAN'S DOCTOR (1933) by Dr. Walter Lennox.
CELESTINE, BEING THE DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID (1933) by Octave Mirbeau
A YOUNG MAN ABOUT TO COMMIT SUICIDE (1932) by Anthony Gudaitis
MY HEART IN MY THROAT: THE STORY OF A STRANGE CAPTIVITY (1932) by Lydia  
Lindgren
WARREN GAMALIEL:HARDING (1932) by Clement Wood
CIRCULATION: AN UNCENSORED STORY OF A NEWSPAPER OFFICE (1932) by Mary Lee  
Dutcher
THE GREAT LINDBERGH HULLABALOO: AN UNORTHODOX ACCOUNT (1932) by Laura  Vitray
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Most of the books appear to be written by publisher Samuel Roth (1893-1974)  
and Clement Wood (1888-1950). Is anyone familiar with Wood's slang work? Did  
Roth influence the word "gay"? Roth edited these magazines:
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    Title Beau : the man's magazine : devoted to the comforts and  luxuries 
of living / edited by Samuel Roth.   Imprint New York : The Beau Pub. Co., 
1926-1927.
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    Title Two worlds.   Imprint  
New York : Two Worlds Pub. Co., c1925-
    Location Humanities-Genrl Res  Vol./date Vol. 1, no. 1 (Sept. 1925)-  
Descript 2 v. : ill. ; 27 cm.  Frequency Quarterly  Note Ceased with v. 2, no. 8 
(June 1927).   "A literary quarterly devoted to the increase of the gaiety of  
nations."   Title from cover.   Edited by Samuel Roth; contributing editors: 
Arthur Symons, Ezra  Pound, Ford Madox Hueffer.   Also issued in reprint ed. 
and on microfiche.    
Published concurrently in 1926-1927 with Two worlds monthly,  also edited by 
Samuel Roth.
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Clement Wood published:

    Title A Dictionary of American slang / Clement Wood and Gloria  Goddard.  
 Imprint  
Girard, Kan. : Haldeman-Julius Co., c1926.
    Location Humanities-Genrl Res  Descript 64 p. ; 13 cm.

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    Author _Wood,  Clement, 1888-1950._ 
(http://catnyp.nypl.org/search/aWood,+Clement,+1888-1950./awood+clement+1888-1950/-5,-1,0,B/browse)    Title Sexual 
relations in the Southern States.   Imprint  
Girard, Kan., Haldeman-Julius Publications [c1929]
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(GOOGLE)

_Tomfolio.com: Erotica (no viewable graphics): Erotic  Literature_ 
(http://www.tomfolio.com/bookssub.asp?subid=889) 
... This version is called a  Samuel Roth edition as originally published by  
William
Faro, Inc. The copyright page states revised 1930 by  William Faro, Inc. ... 
www.tomfolio.com/bookssub.asp?subid=889 - 41k -  _Cached_ 
(http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:qW9Z_JZVuSIJ:www.tomfolio.com/bookssub.asp?subid=889+"samuel
+roth"+faro&hl=en&ie=UTF-8)  - _Similar pages_ 
(http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&c2coff=1&q=related:www.tomfolio.com/bookssub.asp?subid=889) 

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_Highlights from the collections - Archive Awareness month -  The ..._ 
(http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/mss/online/aam/aam/aam_notthighlights.html) 
... volume is actually a  set of printed sheets of an expurgated piracy of 
the novel,
prepared by  Samuel Roth and published under the imprint of William  Faro in 
1930 ... 
www.nottingham.ac.uk/mss/  online/aam/aam/aam_notthighlights.html - 19k - 
_Cached_ 
(http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:EdxfTilhYEgJ:www.nottingham.ac.uk/mss/online/aam/aam/aam_notthighlights.html+"samuel+roth"+faro&hl=en&ie=UTF-8)  
- _Similar pages_ 
(http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&c2coff=1&q=related:www.nottingham.ac.uk/mss/online/aam/aam/aam_notthighlights.html)  
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_TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Thick Blue Volume -- Dec.  28 ..._ 
(http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,753208,00.html) 
... Hamill took his  manuscript to a notorious Samuel Roth who, under the  
name
of William Faro Inc., specialized in smutty publications.  ... 
www.time.com/time/archive/  preview/0,10987,753208,00.html - _Similar pages_ 
(http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&c2coff=1&q=related:www.time.co
m/time/archive/preview/0,10987,753208,00.html)   
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_The Private Life of Frank Harris_ 
(http://www.oddbooks.co.uk/harris/edition.php3?book_key=sr_bio) 
... "William Faro" was Samuel Roth  himself. Back to list of books These 
pages are the
fruit of harmless  drudgery by Alfred Armstrong: alfred at oddbooks.co.uk 
www.oddbooks.co.uk/harris/edition.php3?book_key=sr_bio - 4k  - _Cached_ 
(http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:t_ZqPMJprcEJ:www.oddbooks.co.uk/harris/edition
.php3?book_key=sr_bio+"samuel+roth"+faro&hl=en&ie=UTF-8)  - _Similar pages_ 
(http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&c2coff=1&q=related:www.oddbooks
.co.uk/harris/edition.php3?book_key=sr_bio)   
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(GOOGLE GROUPS) 
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_Jewish influence in the mass media II_ 
(http://groups-beta.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_frm/thread/26f9d3035ad77a86/d8c31b9a1393dbb8?q="samuel+r
oth"+faro&_done=/groups?q="samuel+roth"+faro&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&c2coff=1&sa=N&
tab=wg&&_doneTitle=Back+to+Search&&d#d8c31b9a1393dbb8)   
... Samuel Roth is noteworthy in the pornography  trade for many reasons. ... 
J., 2000, p.
31] Jewish erotica book  publishers included William Faro, Panurge, Falstaff 
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_soc.culture.usa_ (http://groups-beta.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa)  - 
Jan 15 2002, 1:04 pm by M.T.T. 
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   Samuel Roth is noteworthy in the pornography trade for  many reasons. 
Although
some might portray him as a free speech hero, he  pirated editions of both 
James
Joyce's Ulysses and D. H. Lawrence's Lady  Chatterly's Lover, to the protest 
of both
the Joyce and Lawrence estates.  Imprisoned twice, 1937-1939 and 1957-61, 
Roth was
labeled "the dirtiest pig  in the world" and "the louse of Lewisburg [prison]"
[GERTZMAN, J., 2000, p.  219] Roth in 1936 "received the most severe prison 
sentence
possible under  the law for brazenly using the Postal Service to distribute
flagrantly  obscene books ... Roth was the most often incarcerated, the most
feckless,  and quite likely the most resourceful booklegger of his time,  
challenging
moral and legal authorities with a quixotic bravado." [GERTZMAN,  J., 1999, 
p. 22]
(...)
Sam Roth's grandson is none other than Prof. James Kugel, the eminent  
Bible scholar at Harvard University.

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_http://12.11.184.13/boston/news_features/other_stories/multi-page/documents/0
2397916.htm_ 
(http://12.11.184.13/boston/news_features/other_stories/multi-page/documents/02397916.htm) 
ROTH IS A GREAT American icon of perversity. He was a successful  
entrepreneur who took enormous pride in the fact that he always worked for  himself — 
peddling pornography. He was a self-taught man, and used his skills to  write 
tawdry erotica.
(...)
His first magazine, Beau, a sophisticated precursor to  Esquire, attracted 
attention. But it was his second, Two  Worlds, in which he serialized sections 
of Joyce’s Ulysses, that got him in trouble.
(...)
IT’S NO SURPRISE that Samuel Roth’s story is now mostly lost. Except for  
occasional footnote references in works on the history of censorship and  
coverage in Jay A. Gertzman’s superlative book Bookleggers and Smuthounds:  The 
Trade in Erotica 1920-1940 (University of Pennsylvania, 1999),  Roth is not 
remembered at all.